Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIS week's anti-war fast is a fruitless exercise in political impotence. At a time when effective direct action is needed most and when opportunities for it are close at hand, 400 students have been sidetracked into participating in a useless mystic exorcism...
Molded Antiques. Bill Krawski, 28, comes from a family of Connecticut tobacco farmers, but five years ago he decided to harvest barns instead of plants. He has stripped 120 barns, including enough to restore the entire Old Mystic Seaport Village. But Krawski sees an end in sight, reckons that there are only about 100 more tobacco barns in Connecticut to be reaped...
...something about the girl." All the rest is left to the actress who plays Joan. She must make the audience believe in the other characters' phenomenal belief in her. This, Diana Sands fails to do. She stresses Joan the outward realist and scants Joan the inner mystic. Her voice can be heard, and a trifle too stridently, but her "voices" are mute...
...list is admirable in its division of attention between the gurus of the contemporary styles and their still-emerging disciples. It includes such cornerstone composers as the French mystic Olivier Messiaen and American Serialist Statesman Milton Babbitt, plus a smattering of tiny, wispy recent Stravinsky pieces, as well as chamber works by Aaron Copland, some recently discovered early pieces by Anton Webern, performed by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra...
Hochhuth portrayed Pius XII as a Machiavellian "inverted mystic" who hoped to use Hitler to save Europe from Communism. The Churchill of Soldiers seems to be an equally callous caricature. According to the play, Britain's wartime Prime Minister (played by Otto Hasse) was a tragic figure who authorized immoral acts in hopes of saving his nation. Among them was the murder of Sikorski, a stiff-necked patriot who infuriated Stalin first by demanding the postwar return of Polish territories annexed by Russia, then by calling for an investigation of the Katyn massacre of 4,253 Polish military prisoners...